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  <li><span style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;; font-weight: bold"><span style="font-style: italic">CLICK <a href="http://coop.concordia.ca/newsandevents/documents/flushleftnewCOMBINEDEFVERSIONFOREMPLOYERSCHOICEAWARD.pdf">HERE</a></span> to nominate your May 2010 - April 2011 student for an <span style="font-style: italic">EMPLOYER'S CHOICE AWARD</span>.</span></li>
		<li><a href="../index.html">CARE EVENT &amp; STUDENT SHOWCASE</a></li>
		<li><a href="http://coop.concordia.ca/newsandevents/index.php#jmsb">INDUSTRY CANADA/SMALL BUSINESS INTERNSHIP PROGRAM</a></li>
		<li><a href="http://coop.concordia.ca/newsandevents/index.php#jmsb">CO-OP NAMES IN CONCORDIA NEWS</a></li>
		<li><a href="http://coop.concordia.ca/newsandevents/index.php#youngest">YOUNGEST FCAS IN 80+ YEARS</a></li>
		<li><a href="http://coop.concordia.ca/newsandevents/index.php#scheer">PETER SCHEER - CO-OP STUDENT TO CONFERENCE PRESENTER</a></li>
		<li><a href="http://coop.concordia.ca/newsandevents/index.php#lucienpiche">Derek O'Flaherty, Chemistry Co-op Student wins $1,500 Lucien-Piché Scholarship</a></li>
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	<h2 style="; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0;">CO-OP AWARDS OF RECOGNITION EVENT &amp; STUDENT SHOWCASE</h2>
	<p align="center" style="margin-top: 0;"><img src="http://coop.concordia.ca/newsandevents/images/tallskinnyversioncropped_Page_1.jpg" width="204" height="700"></p>
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      <li style="font-weight: bold">MB BUILDING, MAY 25, 5-7 -SPECIAL GUESTS DR. DAVID GRAHAM AND DR. OLLIVIER DYENS</li>
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	<p style="margin-top: 0;">Mark the date in your calendar! The annual Co-op Awards of Recognition Event and Student Showcase (CARESS) will be held a little later in May this year in a brand new location - the state-of-the-art Molson Building at the south-west corner of DeMaisonneuve and Guy. For more information, contact Louise Lalonde by clicking <a href="mailto:louise.lalonde@concordia.ca">here.</a> To nominate your May 2010 - April 2011 student for an Employer's Choice Award, click <a href="http://coop.concordia.ca/newsandevents/documents/flushleftCOMBINEDEFVERSIONFOREMPLOYERSCHOICEAWARD.pdf">here</a>.</p>
	<h2><a name="INDUSTRY"></a>INDUSTRY CANADA PARTNERS WITH CO-OP</h2>
<p>The Hon. Rob Moore, P.C., M.P., Minister  of State (Small Business and Tourism) and The Hon. Larry Smith, Senator confirmed  Concordia University as one of 17 organizations from across Canada selected by  Industry Canada to act as delivery agencies for their new Small Business  Internship Program (SBIP).The Institute for Co-operative Education will be  responsible for administering the program at Concordia as well as for identifying  suitable businesses for participation in the program. Concordia has been given  funding for 30 projects that will match students and small businesses for  12-week 75% funded internships. Click <a href="http://www.concordia.ca/now/university-affairs/governance/20110316/co-op-program-receives-federal-funds.php">here</a> for Concordia's coverage of the event..</p>
<h2><a name="jmsb"></a>CO-OP NAMES IN CONCORDIA NEWS</h2>
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      <li><strong>TWO CO-OP CONNECTIONS = FIRST PLACE       WIN AT FIRST OPEN SECOR CASE COMPETITION </strong></li>
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    <p style="margin-top: 0;">Co-op was well represented at the SECOR Case  Competition. International Business Co-op student Michael Lombardi was on  JMSB&rsquo;s winning team, which included Finance Co-op alumnus Benoit Chevrier as a  coach. This was the first time the event was open to students from all four Montreal business schools (HEC at the Université de  Montréal, Desautels at McGill University, the School of Management  at UQìM, and JMSB at Concordia). Previously the competition, held at the  Université de Montréal, was open only to HEC Montréal students. <a href="http://johnmolson.concordia.ca/en/component/content/article/96-jmsb-news/1851-jmsb-wins-secor-case-competition">Click  here for more about the SECOR Case Competition 2011.</a> </p>
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      <li style="font-weight: bold">CO-OP CONTRIBUTES AT HAPPENING MARKETING 2011</li>
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    <p style="margin-top: 0;">Way to go, JMSB! And congratulations to the Co-op students who helped bring home Overall Gold at the Happening Marketing 2011 held at UQAM. Co-op students <span style="font-weight: bold">Marie-Josee Gagne</span> (Marketing), <span style="font-weight: bold">Jenna Yee</span> (Finance) and <span style="font-weight: bold">Jodi Clark</span> (Marketing) respectively medalled Gold in International Marketing, Gold in Basketball, and Silver in Marketing Strategy. Special thanks to coach <span style="font-weight: bold">Kevin Gardner-Gregory</span>, a Marketing Co-op graduate. <a href="http://johnmolson.concordia.ca/en/component/content/article/96-jmsb-news/1850-jmsb-takes-home-overall-gold-at-happening-marketing-2011">Click here for more about the Happening Marketing 2011</a>.</p>
    <ul style="margin-bottom: 0;"><li style="font-weight: bold">JMSB Case Competition Clicks with Co-op</li>
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    <p style="margin-top: 0;">No matter where you look, you'll find Co-op students and graduates pitching in! Break-a-leg and much success to these Co-op members of the John Molson Undergraduate Case Competition (JMUCC) Organizing Committee: <span style="font-weight: bold">Cristina Baptista</span> (VP External Affairs), <span style="font-weight: bold">Audrey Landry</span> (VP Academic Affairs), <span style="font-weight: bold">Valentine Vaillant</span> (VP Development) and <span style="font-weight: bold">Guillaume Leverdier</span> (VP Logistics and Operations). <a href="http://jmucc.ca/">Click here for more about the JMUCC</a>, taking place in MB, February 20 to 26. Best of luck to the whole JMUCC team... <span style="font-weight: bold">Go JMSB Go</span>! Make Concordia even prouder!</p>
    <ul style="margin-bottom: 0;">
      <li style="font-weight: bold">Co-op Student Jessica Kuan Part of Ryerson OBC Victory</li>
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    <p style="margin-top: 0;">Congratulations to Human Resource Management Co-op student <span style="font-weight: bold">Jessica Kuan</span> who helped bring home the Ryerson Organizational Behaviour Case Competition title, Ontario's premier HR case competition event. Way to go, Jessica and the rest of the OB team! <a href="http://johnmolson.concordia.ca/en/component/content/article/96-jmsb-news/1801-1st-place-at-the-6th-annual-ryerson-organizational-behaviour-case-competition-obc">For more information, please click here</a>.</p>
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      <li><strong style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Personal Selling Pays Off for Tanya</strong></li>
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    <p style="margin-top:0;"><strong>Tanya Caristo</strong>, Marketing Co-op Student, was part of a case study team that will split a $2,500 prize from Xerox Canada Ltd. Students in the MARK 454 Personal Selling Class (Dr. Lea Katsanis) presented their results to a panel of judges that included Co-op's new Director, <span style="font-weight: bold">Gerry Hughes </span>and Michel Blais, Recruiting Specialist at Xerox Canada. Tanya and the other members of the winning five-person team will also have the  opportunity to shadow a Xerox sales representative in the field.</p>
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      <li style="font-weight: bold">Co-op Volunteers in Many Ways</li>
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    <p style="margin-top:0;">Marketing Co-op Grad <span style="font-weight: bold">Heather Gagnon</span> lent a helping  hand as a volunteer recently for <span style="font-weight: bold">Samosas for Centraide</span> in the MB lobby. Human Resource  Management Co-op Student <span style="font-weight: bold">Jessica Kuan</span> was among several Concordia students who volunteered  a day of their time at <span style="font-weight: bold">Elizabeth House</span>, a private rehabilitation centre in Montreal. The centre  offers support to young mothers and their children, and helps empower the young  women with education, nursery, and counseling services.</p>
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      <li><span style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;; font-weight: bold">Co-op helps with win at the Brock University  Accounting Conference</span></li>
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    <p style="margin-top:0;">Two teams including Accountancy Co-op Grad <span style="font-weight: bold">Audrey Landry</span> and Accountancy Co-op Student <span style="font-weight: bold">Alexander Ryzhikov</span> participated in the <span style="font-weight: bold">Brock  University Accounting Conference</span>, with one team bringing home <span style="font-weight: bold">first prize</span>.</p>
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      <li style="font-weight: bold">Go FAR East, Co-op!</li>
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    <p style="margin-top:0;">Finance Co-op Student <span style="font-weight: bold">Benoit Chevrier</span> and Accountancy  Co-op Student <span style="font-weight: bold">Jonathan Laurent-Ruel</span>, as well as Finance Co-op Grad <span style="font-weight: bold">Thomas  Horvath</span> participated in the <span style="font-weight: bold">CITI International Case Competition</span> in Hong Kong. Finance Co-op Student <span style="font-weight: bold">Jason Coviensky</span> participated with other JMSB students in the <span style="font-weight: bold">Prudential Singapore Management  University Case Competition</span>. Although neither team won, both were praised for  their strong presentations and professionalism.</p>
    <p style="margin-bottom: 0;">&nbsp;</p>
<h2 style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><strong><a name="wooddy"></a>First John Culver Wooddy  Actuarial Scholarship for Concordia Student</strong></h2>
<p style="margin-top:0;"><strong>Actuarial Co-op</strong> student <strong>Jonathan Morin</strong> topped off his academic  career as a recipient of the John Culver Wooddy Scholarship. Offered to only a  dozen or so North American and international senior college/university students  each year, Johnathan is the first student from Concordia University  to have been so honoured. Candidates are nominated by a professor at their school and must have successfully completed at least one  actuarial examination and rank in the top quartile of their class. For a picture of  the 2010 winners, including Jonathan, click <a href="http://coop.concordia.ca/newsandevents/documents/TAF_Scholars_2010_Morin.pdf">here</a>. For more information about  the John Culver Woody Scholarship, click <a href="http://www.actuarialfoundation.org/programs/actuarial/jcwooddy.shtml">here</a>. <a href="http://www.actuarialfoundation.org/programs/actuarial/jcwooddy.shtml"></a> </p>
    <h2 style="margin-bottom: 0;"><strong><a name="youngest"></a>Concordia Actuarial/Finance Co-op Student  Kristen Gervais-Andrade May Be Youngest FCAS in More than 80 Years!</strong></h2>
    <p style="margin-top:0;">It&rsquo;s pretty much for sure, but the best information the Casualty  Actuarial Society has makes <strong>Kristen  Gervais-Andrade</strong> the youngest-ever Fellow of the CAS since  1928. What usually takes the average actuary eight-and-a-half to ten years was  part-and-parcel of Kristen&rsquo;s program as a Bachelor of Science, major in  Actuarial/Finance student, and member of the Institute for Co-operative Education. In fact, he alternated his  academic terms with four full-time work terms at three different Co-op  employers. Learn more about extremely organized Kristen in the Concordia  <a href="http://cjournal.concordia.ca/archives/20100617/one_small_program_three_great_grads_constantina_nicolopoulos_guillaume_proulxcabana_and_kristen_gervaisandrade.php">Journal</a>.</p>
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<h2 style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><strong><a name="scheer"></a>From Co-op Student to Conference Presenter and Author</strong></h2>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">By Peter  Scheer</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Candidate for Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical,  Co-op)</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;"><img width="198" height="203" src="http://coop.concordia.ca/newsandevents/images/clip_image002_000.jpg" align="left" alt="http://www.isot-2010.org/images/conference_gallery/Tuesday_oct26_photos/image099.jpg"></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Photo courtesy of <strong><a href="http://coop.concordia.ca/newsandevents/ISOT%202010%20International%20Symposium%20on%20Optomechatronic%20Technologieshttp:/www.isot-2010.org/images/conference_gallery/Tuesday_oct26_photos/image099.jpg">ISOT 2010 International Symposium on  Optomechatronic Technologies</a></strong></p>
<p style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom: 0;"><u><strong><a href="http://coop.concordia.ca/newsandevents/ISOT%202010%20International%20Symposium%20on%20Optomechatronic%20Technologieshttp:/www.isot-2010.org/images/conference_gallery/Tuesday_oct26_photos/image099.jpg"><br />
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<p style="margin-top: 0;">From January to August 2010, I  was hired as a software developer at the<a href="http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/"> <strong>National Research Council</strong></a> (NRC) for my second and third work terms in the Electrical Engineering  Co-op. After a few weeks buried in textbooks and online tutorials, I started  making meaningful contributions to my project, programming a <a href="http://www.robots.com/motoman.php?robot=upj">6-DOF robotic arm</a> for  use in the aerospace manufacturing industry.</p>
<p>My supervisor, Dr. Iraj Mantegh, a Senior Research Officer at the <a href="http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/facilities/iar/amtc.html"><strong>Aerospace Manufacturing  Technology Center</strong> </a>(part of NRC&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/ibp/iar.html"><strong>Institute for Aerospace Research</strong></a>), soon recognized my analytic and software-development potential, and I was consequently given a greater role and  opportunity to contribute to the algorithm and software design. With my  supervisor, we co-authored and implemented a new algorithm to identify patterns  in human-demonstrated trajectories, with the goal of re-creating those patterns  free of &ldquo;noise.&rdquo; Using C++ and MATLAB, I implemented the algorithm and  performed an end-to-end demonstration. I had significant support in writing the  algorithm not only from my supervisor, but also from two other students  courtesy of Concordia&rsquo;s Institute for Co-operative Education, namely Amer  Alhalabi (Co-op) and Tongxin Ji (Industrial Experience).  The NRC&rsquo;s learning environment helped me not only sharpen my engineering skills  but also gain research experience and knowledge in new fields.</p>
<p>The algorithm and demonstration results were published in a conference  paper entitled &ldquo;<a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/"><em>Robot Task Planning and  Trajectory Learning Based on Programming by Demonstration</em></a>&quot;. Amer and  my supervisor were listed as co-authors, while I received the distinction (and  responsibility) of being listed as the first author. At my supervisor&rsquo;s request,  the Institute for Co-operative Education made funding available for me to  travel to Toronto  last October to present my paper at the <a href="http://www.isot-2010.org/"><strong>2010 International Symposium on Optomechatronic Technologies.</strong></a></p>
<p>It is thanks to the Co-op that I was able to present our work to the  international engineering community. I defended the paper against accomplished  academics and researchers from Canada,  the United States, Japan, South Korea, and more. They were  unanimously encouraged to see undergraduate students interested in research  engineering. I was no longer an  engineering undergraduate, but a peer amongst authors and presenters. In that capacity, I watched some remarkable  presentations on topics such as machine vision, facial recognition, and  gesture-based command and control.</p>
<p>While he could have presented the paper himself, Dr. Mantegh wanted to  give me the opportunity to see this project through to the end, and I thank him  for empowering me through the course of this project. The fact that I have  published a research paper sets me apart from most undergraduates. I am now  applying for graduate school and jobs, and I know that my experience in Co-op  will boost my chances of finding the best opportunity in the future.</p>
<p>Special thanks are also due to Jean-Michel Paquette and Chenfeng Huang  for making my first-ever business trip as an engineer possible. Co-op opens doors that you didn&rsquo;t even know  existed. As long as you show that you  are driven, Co-op will be there to guide you on your road to success.</p>
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<h2>Derek O'Flaherty, Chemistry Co-op Student wins $1,500 Lucien-Pich&eacute;  Scholarship</h2>
    <p>The  Foundation Lucien-Pich&eacute; is a registered, non-profit organization. It was  founded in 1987 in honour of Professor Lucien Pich&eacute;, chemist, the  first lay person to be named to the post of vice-rector at Universit&eacute; de  Montr&eacute;al.</p>
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      <p>This year four scholarships of $1,500 each were  awarded; one to Chemistry
        Co-op student Derek O&rsquo;Flaherty; two to students from  Universit&eacute; de Montr&eacute;al one to a student from Universit&eacute; Laval.</p>
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    <p>The president of the selection committee, Dr. Yves  Rousseau, stated that &ldquo;The applicants have exceptional academic records. Their  motivation and implication show a great maturity.&rdquo;&nbsp; Dr. Rousseau also said &ldquo;This year candidates  are particularly excellent.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Congratulations Derek!</p>

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